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'nte weather forecast. Fair to-day and to-morrow; moderate north erly winds, becoming variable. Detailed weather reports will be found on page IS. VOL. LXXX. NO. 57. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, .1912. Oopyi1fftl. "12, V Sun Printing and PublitMng JLltociation. 66 PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SCUTARI AND . USKUB TAKEN Montenegrins and Servians Kcach Objective Points of Their Advance. API! I A XOPLE SHELLED Rulgars Occupy Four Import ant Positions Overlooking the Fortress. FIGHTING VERY SEVERE HuMlo tit Koiimaiiovo. Captured I iy Servians, Was Haml to llainl Conflict. fpeoal Cable DupattU to Tut Hex London, ,.i )ct. 26. Uskub has fallen to I lu- Servians. Scutari la in the hands the Montenegrins, the Uulgars are shelling the suburbs of Adrlunoplc. TtilH la the situation In the Balkans to-night. Two of the allied States havo reached the objective points of their campaigns and the Bulgarian army seems to be hemming In Ailrlanople successfully. The fall of Scutari, the Turkish town cn the lakesldo for which the Mon tenegrins havo striven so lone, Is no preal surprise. When the Turkish Min ister of War admitted the other day that It might bo captured and when the Turks began to withdraw quietly from tht forts In front of the city military men dally expected word .or Its fall. Hut Uskub and Its easy conquest dc pttc severe fighting furnished a sur prise and to-night there are wild dem onstrations of joy In the Servian capi tal. The battle of Koumanovo, won after desperate fighting, apparently took the heart out of the Turks. The banjak of Novl-Bazar Is now en tirely In tho hands of Servlu. She claims all that province us her cwn. All along the line from Scutari td Adrlanoplo the allies are pressing for ward, encouraged by their victories, al though they have been won with tre mendous casualties, und heartened by the apparent unwillingness of the Turks to take tho offensive. North of Adrlanoplo the Bulgers are shelling tho city, while their advance Is swinging xouth to meet the main force of the Turks concentrated some twenty-five miles bIow the city. One Bulgarian brlgudo ). nlrtody at Vlza, Bixtyrtwo miles east by bouth of Adrl anoplo. Tho army's headquarters will be moved south from Vranja In a few days. Toward the Constantinople road a strong Uulgar column Is moving by way of PravodIJa and Cadera and nn other division Is driving down tha right bank of the Marltza Mvcr. Thcso troops are pressing through wooded "country and urc being tlercely opposed by Turkish Irregulars. Much nf tho fighting Is with daggers alone and nil of It Is practically hand to hand. Should the Bulgarian columns be abln to get In touch with each other Adrlanople will bo cut off from the otilaldo world and its fall will be only a matter of days. The Turks way that their army Is not yet fully mobilized, and they promise different results from those of tho re frnt days of the war when they can pet 4.000 men concentrated in front of Cotihtantlnople for the defence of their threatened capital. The details of the victory of the Servian arms over the Turks at Kouraa i.ovo tell a story In many ways a rep lica f the battlo ut Kirk Klllssch. Al Koumanovo too thero was hand to hand lighting of tint fiercest sort over a fog hung mountain country. Servian artillerymen concentrated their flic on three squadrons of Turkish (av.iiry charging across a platn and . llli rally blew them to pieces. The Crown I'rlnco of Kervla was in the thkkctt of the lighting. The St. Petersburg correspondent of th- (tbnrrver says that he has the high lit authority when ho announces that the Balkan war will be stopped by the Powers In a few weeks. In all tho bourses of Europe a crush Inn defeat of Turkey Is looked upon ns a calamity by the brokers. The Servian legation here has received Hie following official details of the battle ef Koumanovo: The offensive was taken by the Turku, who opened the attack on the Servian positions nt 2:30 P. M. Wednesday. It-Tin was falling at tho time and the bat tlelteld was shrouded in fog. The Servian army occupied positions about five miles ' from Koumanovo. The Turkish attack "as successfully resisted by part of the Servian urtny. Thore were heavy losses rn lx)th sldos. Tho lighting continued throughout Wednesday afternoon and hv dusk the ' Dslaught of tho Turks had been stayed. i o nock Thursday morning the Ser vians attacked the Turks, who were flrongly entronohod. This night flght iax lasted two hours. At 6 o'clock in the morning tho Servians lgan nn advance along the whole lino. Tlioy opened the attack with artillery "'"I Hio Turks ropliod vigorously. The ground over whioh tho Servians were ''I'nitmg was on and their advancing infantry was exposed to a hoavy flro frnm the Turkish artillery. Nevortho l"s the Servian Infantry continued their advance until tho victory was won. Again mil again they stormed tho Turkish posi 'iwih turning the Ottomans out of their Irenrhos in hand to hand fighting nt the iwit or tho luyoriot and forcing them ' fall Itfieli from one strongly entrenched pfNiHon to anollier. "y in A. M llm Servians had oleared Ihevalieyofihe Ubvoknund Koumanovo, Continued on Third rage. JANE DOE" FOR MBS. BELMONT. Woman Charge Her With Arnault In Suffrage I.nnrh How. Mrs. o. It. P. .Belmont whs served with n "Jane Doe" summons yester daj morning to appear to-morrow in tho Jefferson Market police court and answer to the charge of assault. The summons was served by a man who went with Mrs. Alice Clancy to.the rooms of tho Political Equality League, at 13 East Forty-first street, at 10 o'clock In the morning. Mrs. Clancy pointed out Mrs. Belmont, and her es cort stepped forward with the court paper, which Mrs. Belmont received with a smile and a "thank you." Mrs. Clancy, who has a modiste es tablishment at 66" Fifth avenue, went to the suffrage lunchrooms In tho league houso on Friday noon. An argument followed over tho amount of her check. Mrs. Morgan, who runs the lunchroom, came up and loud words followed. Mrs. Belmont was going through tho room and she stopped at the sound of conflict and asked what was the trouble. According to Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Bel mont laid her hand on the modiste's shoulder In a conciliatory fashion and told her she would have to leave. Mrs. Clancy, on the other hand, says that Mrs. Belmont gripped her with such force as to tear the ulcevo of her gown. Whereupon Mrs. Clancy left for the Jerrcrson Market court, wnerc she de manded a summons for Mrs. Belmont Magistrate Murphy gave het a "Jane Doo" summons, as the modiste was not absolutely sure that It was Mr Belmont who had assaulted her. Mrs. Morgan will be In court to tell her version of the Incident when Mrs. Belmont nppears to-morrow, ns will tho waitresses and many women from the league. BIPLANE DUMPS ELOPERS INTO FRESHPJ.OUGHED FIELD ralr Found Plastered With Soil 0 Wedding Postponed Until To-morrow. HllXKUALK, Mich., Oct. 26. A young aviator and his sweetheart started to eloK! from Fort Wayne. Ind.. to this pluce in an aeroplane to-day and woko up after a seventy mile trip with the soil of a freshly ploughed field plastered nil over their faces and clothed. The new style In elopements was set when Arthur Smith and Miss Amy Cour put their heads together and planned to foil the young lady's unwilling parents. Straightaway Arthur got ou his biplane and made It ready. He ap peared at the appointed spot, Miss Cour climbed Into her eat beside her sweet heart, a lever was pulled and the aero plane sailed away Into the October af ternoon. For the seventy miles to this rlty all went well. Then as Smith prepared to land something went wrong with the engines, so he volplaned to earth, aim ing nt a new ploughed Held as a good place to light. And well It was that he picked out a soft spot, for when the machine touched the ground it turned over and the young pair ploughed through the freshly turned earth for some distance. ' Both were rendered unconscious, but when they were revived the first word of each was Inquiry about the other. Smith suffered a sprained ankle, while the girl was cut about the eye and her back was wrenched. As a result the wedding did not take placo to-night as planned, but has been postponed until Monday. Smith is 20 years old and Mlsa Cour is a year his Junior. TAKES SIX IN BIPLANE FLIGHT. Aviator Dougherty Claims Itrenrd With Five Piurngm. Joi.ibt, III., Oct. 26. Friends of Earl Dougherty, an aviator, laid claim to-day to a new passenger carrying record for him. Using a large biplane yester day .Dougherty took up five passengers fbi a successful flight nt Coal City, III. Tho passengers were George Hill, George Hill, Jr., George Campbell, Hcr mnn Kaplan and a boy. A second flight was made with three passengers. These feats are said to constitute a record for tho United States at least. 1,000 CABS JUST FOR AUTOS. Pennsylvania Include That Man? In Order I uk 0,000 for Krrtzbt. The Pennsylvania Railroad has Just placed an order for 6,000 more freight cars. Of thoje 1,000 are Intended solely for tho transportation of uutomoblles, while the remainder are of the stand ard box car type. In Juno the road contracted for 4,875 cars, making a total addition to roll ing stock this year of nearly 10,000 cam. The cost of rolling stock this year will pass (20,000,000. In the year 8,000 old oars havo been sent to the scrap heap. k The thousand automobile cars and 3,000 of the freight cars will be built at once by the Pressed Steel Car Com pany and the remainder will be built by the Pennsylvania at Its Altoona HhnnH. . Tho nmnnv announce nn nrtlvn campaign to overcome car snonnges. To do this tho road is preventing as far as possible tho holding of loaded cars at seaports. ADOPTS HER OWN DAUGHTER. XeiTnrk Mother Hla-na Papers Kte ruled by Child' Nlepfathrr. Mrs. Solomon H. Stern of Newark, N. J., adopted her own eight-year-old daughter Huzanno yesterday, Tho adop tion papers were signod lieforo Judge Martin in tho Orphans' Court. Suzanne's father died four years ago and Ions than a year later hnr mother married Mr. Stern, Ho decided to adopt Suzanne as his own oh I Id and as tho adop tion papers read "by Solomon H. Stern und Ills wife, Aiuia." it was necessary for tho child's mother to sign us well as her newfnther. Suzanne's fathor was Walter L. Fuohs. WIIKIIKTO HAVK I.II.VIIi:o Anil drink the hen I American Wine. H. T. W'.WKY A HONS CO.. I3S Kullon St., S. Y. Ait. GUARD OFFICERS PROTEST TO DIX Setting Aside of Gen. O'Ryan Called Demoral izing to Service. STATE SOLDIERY TORN Threats of Resignation and Requests to Be Super numeraries. REVENGE STORIES HEARD Meanwhile Adjt.-Gen. Verbeek Irhucs Orders for Hegi niental Changes. Twelve commanding officers of tho National Guard, two of whom at least are lirlgadler-Generals, mailed protests to Gov. Dlx yesterday against the order relieving Major-Gen. John F. O'ltyan of all command except in the field on active duty and making Adjutant-General Verbeek supreme. They called the ac tion illegal i. id demoralizing to the Guard. There were Intimations that the twelve Lieutenant-Colonels, chiefs of depart tnents on Gen. O' Ryan's staff, drafted to the staff of Gen. Verbeek by the Friday order, will object to serving, and will ask to be placed on the supcrnu mcrnry list, waiting for a change of administration on January 1. There were reports that some mem bcra of the personal stall of Gov. Dlx would resign. The action of Gov. Dlx has torn tho State soldiery asunder as nothing ha done in two decades. "Demoralizing," "paralyzing" and "po Utlcallzlng" were only three of the mild est characterizations of Guard officers yesterday1! It was said to be a return to conditions existing prior to 1S93, when the Adjutant-General, a political appointee surviving only for the term. of the Governor naming him, exercised slmlUtr powers. Some hinted at it as the revenge ot one high officer of the Guard upon an other because of an Incident In thli city. .Others Just as broadly hinted al the supplementary revenge of a Tam many leader, Percy Nagle, through hit henchman. Assemblyman Cuvilller, be. cause the ambition ot Nagle In a cer tain direction was balked. The name of Lieutenant-Commander Kckford De Kay, Gov. Dlx's aid: the Adjutant-General, Nagle and Cuvilller wore all Joined together yesterday In a narration of a scries of Incidents which led up to the Executive action of Friday. Major-Gen. O'ltyan would not say u word about the situation and bis secre tary put up magnificent Interference be. tween him and all reporters. Friend of the Mnjor-Gcnenil declared that this was done because the first word of criticism, protest or censure uttered by the General will be the signal for a court-martial at Albany for violating the military code. The Adjutant-General has received a legal opinion from Judge Advocate General William W. Ladd, a lawyer and authority on military law, declaring that the action In making a political ap pointee, with no previous Guard experi ence chief of the forces Is Illegal. It Is not known that the Governor has seen this. Other lawyers with military training In the city arc now going over the case, with a view of ascertaining whether the Governor's action may not be reviewed by the War Deportment of the United States, which makes an appropriation for the Guard of the State. It was established that Major-Gen O'Rynn had never asked for a salary of $8,000 a year, as the Friday despatches from Albany stated, but that lie did nsk for allowances during tho time he was actively employed In preparing for the Joint manoeuvres In Connecticut. At the time he made the application to Adjutant-General Verbeek, who disal lowed It, the Major-General told friends that he was doing so with the knowl edge and consent ot Gov. Dlx. That tho whole affair is an attempt by Gov. Dlx to get even with Charles F. Murphy was denied by tho representa tives of Tammany leaders, who have been fighting Gen. O'ltyan ns well us by friends of the General. That there would be trouble between tho Adjutant-General and the Major General was prophesied In the Guard so noon as It became known that on May 1 of this year O'Ryan. a Major, would bo Jumped Into thu Major-Qcneralship, Tho Adjutant-aencral, appointed out of civil life by tho Governor, was known not to be a man who caret to confine himself simply to auditing bills and passing on requisitions, while Major-Gen. O'Ryun, who has devoted his life to State soldiering, attended the Government artillery school at Fort Hlley, Kansas, and studied under the best of military masters. There wan no politico In his appoint ment, as OoV, Dlx himself said when It became known that he would be chosen to succeed Charles F. Iloe, who had reached tho age limit. No politicians were back of him so fur oh could be learned, but his In dorsers were Major-Gen. Leonard S, Wood, Chief of Staff; other general of. fleers of tho United States army an! the olllclal referees and umpires who had followed tho young officer In th.i field nt tho Joint manoeuvres since he had risen to the command of tho First Mattery, succeeding dipt. Louis Wen- del At Pine Plains his battery was re- ported to be tho most efficient of the State troops there engaged, and similar reports were returned for him at other places. Tho trouble which was prophesied would be duo, It was thought, not only to the personul desire of the Adjutant- T Continued on Second Page, COURT HITS BROKERS' RULE. Stock ltnusjht on Margin Mont He Held for Caalomer. The Appellate Term of the Supremo Court refused yesterday to permit the brokerage firm of Charles A. Btoncham & Co. to appeal to tho Appellate Di vision from a ruling that whdn brokers agree to buy stock on margin for a customer they must have the stock on hand to deliver to tho customer as soon an he Is ready to take It up and make full payment. Pierre A. Shiel got Judgment against the Stoneham firm because the brokers told him he would have to wait for hta stock until It could be brought here from Salt Lake Olty or Toronto. Coun sel for the firm In asking permission to appeal said the case is of great Im portance In the brokerage world because It Is the custom of all brokers on both the exchanges and the curb to hypothe cate and borrow money on stocks pur chased on margin for customers. "Tho case has been called to the at tention of brokers In all cities," tho law yer said, "and they all agree that if this decision stands there must be a great change In the business methods of brokers." AUTO KILLS MEDDLING BOY, He Mart Bin Truck When Driver Hone and Jump In Fright. William Saraga, 7 years old, of 626 Van Nest avenue, Tho Uronx, climbed up on the seat of an automobile delivery truck standing near his home while tho driver was making a delivery yester day und started the machine. As it gathered speed the child became frightened, Jumped out and fell directly In front of the automobile. A wheel passed over his head. lie was dead by the time an amOu lance arrived. The driver, John Berg man, was served with a summons to up pear In court. HALL FROM I. P. FOR TRINITY COLLEGE Financier Promises Library und Administration Dnilding to Cost About $150,000. Hartford, Conn., Oct. 2fl. J. Pierpont Morgan camo to Hartford to-day to at tend a meeting of tho trustees of Trinity College, and before he left ho had agroed to put up a new library and administra tion building at an approximate cost of 1150,000. The gift was made conditionally, but the trustees ot the collego believe that they Kill be able to meet the condition The college lias been planning a new dormitory, a new scientific building and a new library and administration build ing. Mr. Morgan has agreed to build (he library and administration building if the trustees raUo tho money to build the rest. The cost of these structuros will be about $250,000, it is thought. Mr. Morgan also made tho stipulation that, if the raising of the money for tho other buildings is completed and ho builds the library and administration building thelattcrwillbecalledWilllams's Hall, in memory of tho late Right Rev John Williams, D. 1)., a former Iiishop of Connecticut, whom Mr. Morgan know and of whom he thought a great deal. The trustees of the college ure also trying to raise another fund of $750,000 as an endowment for the new buildings. Mr. Morgan's gift it conditional only upon tho building of the proposed structure and not upon the raising of the endow ment. Mr. Morgan arrived at Hartford at 11:30 this morning, and was met at tho Union Station by James J, Goodwin and tho Rev. Francis Goodwin, cousins, who aro trustees of the college. Mr. Morgan arrived in a special trnin consisting of the private car Connecticut of President Mellon of tho New Haven Railroad and a day coach for ballast. KENSITITES RIOT IN LONDON. So-called WycttrTc Prrnchrrn Dear crate Church Cerrniun). Special Cable Dttpatch to Tub Sex. Lo.nijon, Oct. 26. Tho so-c.lled Wyollffo preachers, followers of tho lato antl-llltuallst Kcnslt, made a scene to-day nt the consecration by tho Bishop of Ixindon of the Anglican Church of St. Silas the Martyr In tho London suburb of Kcnttehtown. Prin cess Mario Iiulse of Schlcswlg-Hol-steln was among those who witnessed the disturbance. Before tho arrival of tho Bishop of London three Kensltltcs rushed Into the sanctuary, where tho Bishop ot Wlllsden was seated In his robcH und wearing his mitre, and addressed him In loud tones. A chorister and nomo others seized tho disturbers and bun dled them out, "but not before thero had been some scuffling, In the course of widen tho coping stone of the com munion rail was knocked off, Injuring one of those near by. Afterward a proeetnlon led -by the Bishop of London was held up by other disturbers, who were likewise ejected, and eventually the consecrnflon was completed. MAYOR LUNN TALKS HERE. Noelnllit Mayor of Molienet-tnd? In w York To-day. The leaders of the Socialist party nnnounced yesterday that Georgo It. Lunn, the Socialist Mayor of Schenec tudy, will' bo In this city this afternoon and will address two meetings In sup port of Meyer London, tho Socialist candidate for Congress In the Twelfth district. The first meeting Will be held at Jefferson Hall, 00 Columbia street, and the second at Clinton Hall, lfil Clinton street. Mayor Lunn, who Is himself n cundl data for Congress, will address both meetings. Ho will probably remain on the East Side for a day or two to aid In London's campaign. The Mountain of Welfrn Xorlh Carolina Tli l.ANl) of the SKY." Now Ik Ibr llmr lo vIMt Ihrwi rliarmlne rrwirts reached by BOIiTHKIlN IIAll.WAV In throutli Ircpltic ears. N. Y. Office, 741 Fifth Avenue, cor. :(ib a !.-!. Tl Gets a Housing Reception at Five Night Meetings Be ginning at Yonkcrs. RIG STICK FOR BOSSES Says Hedges Has 'Charm and Snlzcr Is Bossed, but -Neither Will Win. Oscar S. Straus, after touring Now York State and speaking In tho West, returned to his own town to do some campaigning last night. He whirled from Getty Square, In Yonkcrs, to 125th street, speaking In five places to 9,000 people, and everywhere he was met with such enthusiasm an must have made him glad to get home again. He apont the evening chiefly criticising William Sulzer, the Democratic candi date for Governor. The Sulzer attitude toward "Tammanytsm" and toward civil service reform uppearcd to incense the Progressive candidate more than any thing else. Mr. Sulzer says he proposes to fol low In the footsteps of Samuel J. Til- den," said Mr. Hjtraus. "Well, he must remember that Tilden s first work was to down Tammany Hull and the Tweed ring. Sulzer Is not downing the Murphy ring he dare not. 'Mr. Sulzer will tell you that he Is the nominee of the Democracy of the Em pire State; that his boss is William Sulzer. He won't tell you who his boss has been for the last twenty-five years. He has the advantage of me." I never have been the candidate of Tammany, and It doesn t look as if I ever shall be. Mr. Straus said of the Public Service Commission that he considers it "one of the most Important bulwarks In the State against the rapacity of corpora tlons." He reminded) his hearers that In January tho terms of two ot the three up-State Commissioners will ex pire and asked how the people thought Sulzer would All the vacancies If ho should be elected. "Dlx once filled a vacancy nnd he chose the bosom friend of Charlie. Mur phy," declared tho Progressive candi date. "Mr. Cram was tho man. Now Sulzer has commended Mr. Dlx's ad ministration. Think of having a whole commission composed ot Tammany men! Highways -and canals are "the merest bagatelles of the possible corruptions as compared to what the commission could do If It should become Tammany- Ized," Mr. Straus assured his hearers, The Progressive candidate spoke, first af 8 o'clock to MOO people In Phillips. burg Hall at Yonkcrs. When the Straus party, headed by the candidate and his wife camo on the platform every one In the audience stood flp nnd joined heartily In three cheers. Interest was diverted for an instant- from Mr. Straus by the entrance on the stage of woman dressed all in brown nnd bearing on her head a brown velvet toque sur mounted by a pair of waving antlers, tho whole Illuminated by an Invisible electric light. The woman thus adorned was Mrs. Wlllard Carpenter, a local .Moosctte. With the candidate on the platform wero John A. Kingsbury, chairman of tho city progressive committee; Homer Folks, secretary of the State Charities Aid Association, and George W. Kirch wey. Progressive candidate for the Court of Appeals. Mr. Straus 'elicited real enthusiasm from his audience when he told them tho Progressives havo tho bosses on the run, and also when ho assured them thut Mr. Straus would sure get to Al bany. He would welcome nnybody and everybody very cordially to Albany, lie declared, even the boses, only he should want them not to forget that he was bosi He would even be glad to see Mr, Hedges, he said, nnd declared that the Republican candidate hud no chuuee of coming to Albany as anything except a visitor. He referred to the "scintilla tion and charm" of Mr. Hedges, but de clared that something more than these finalities was needed to "beat Billy Barnes. Mr. Straus said that as far us he was concerned he curried two big sticks around with him "one for Hilly Barnca and one for Charlie Murphy." Tho candidate made mention of Gov, Wilson, calling him "that fine scholar nnd eminent professor." "Mr. Wilson says our Progrerslvo platform Is a fine literary essay," said Mr. Straus, "and I'm not disposed to dispute him. It In a fine literary essay, and that's more than I can say of Guv. "Wilson's platform. His reminds me of u moving picture show now you s?o It and now you don't." It was In the Second Battery Armory, at 177th street and Bathgate avenue, that Mr, Straus encountered his most enthusiastic) audience. The chairman of the meeting, the Itev, Dr. Milton C. Hess, had considerable difficulty In stop, ping tho cheering so as to give Mr. Straus a chance to speak. As a matter of fact he didn't stop It. The candi date himself had to step to the front of tho platform and raise his hands be fore anything like order was estab lished. The candidate was whlrlell away from tho armory to Furman's Casino, ut Prospect und Westchester avenues, where he Bpoke for fifteen minutes to 2,000. piople. Then 1q went on to Long's dancing academy, ut Tl.lrd nvenue and 145th Btrect, nnd talked to 1,500 people for ten minutes and finally to Marlon Hall, at 160 Kant 125th street. JAIL FOR PIANO MAKERS. Illinois Supreme Court Affirm .liiclu. merit In Cauv of thr titrKrra, KniiNnriKMi, III., Oct. 20. Jail sen tences of two rloh men were approved by the Supremo Court or this State to tlnv in llm itlltu.H rtf .Inhfl II Hlnrrnr ,.mciI day in the oaseB of John 11. Stegor, presi - v . , -b",, ..ci- dent of tho bteger A Sons Piano Company, and Christ (1. Sieger, treasurer of the company, convicted on a churgo of vlo- l.l, ' Inliiiintlm. " An infrlncomimt on a trade marl; crmv. rliTl t wiu. iffiiml n llm orfflnal right was uiargeu in tno original com- plaint agulost the piano men, ENGLAND HOLDS 30,000 MEN. Flrat Clans Fleet nvierves .Notified to De Iteady for Service Call. Special Cable Detpatch to Tan Sun. London. Oct. 26. The first class Brit ish fleet reserves, numbering about 30,000 men, havo been notified from Chatham to be ready to answer an lm' mediate caltn service. HITS TAFT WITH SLINGSHOT. Ror Ueta President HUM Undrr the Eye With a Hard Pea. Corry, Pa., Oct. M. President Taft reached this city on his special train at 10 o'clock this morning. As the Presi dent came from hia oar to speak a young (tcr let go a slingshot. The missile seemed to striko tho President under the right eye. Mr. Taft swept away tho sting and turned na if to retreat into his car, but reconsidered and started to speak. The police wero at once notified and aro seeking tho boy who shot at tho Presi dent. It is said a pea struck the Presi dent. Fortunately It did not touch his eye. SUFFRAGETTES DESTROY MALL. Put Chemical In Street Bnxe ar London. Special Cable Dttpatch to Tn Sex. London, Oct. 26. Extra police aro watching the mall boxes In consequence Ot tho discovery that suffragettes In tho neighboring town of llford had poured tar, acid and various chemicals in most of the street mall boxes In that district and made pulp of the contents. One box contained this note: 'It Is hateful work, but tho Govern ment must be made to sec that there will be no law or order until women arc al lowed tu vote," , PREP BOYS FIGHT FIRE. niif at l.awrencpvlllv School sub dued After Ilonr'a Work. PntNCETON, N. J., Oct. 26. While the thirty boys of the Grlswold House ut the Lawrencevlllc School, Lawrenccvllle, N. J., were enjoying a Hallowe'en feat last night fire was discovered coming from a window on the third floor. Under the direction of Fred Kafer, tho football coach, and I Larry Carter, tho captain of the football team, ladder. were placed against the building and n hose was carried through the windows of the third floor. After an hour of firs fighting the youngsters finally got tho flames under control. Grant Peacock, a freshman of Prince ton, son of A. n. Peacock of PlttBburjr, fell from a ladder while carrying a pleco of hose and was badly bruised. Tho damage amounted to $S,000. WOMEN TO WATCH VOTERS. I'roircHivri Ask Slalrm In Knllnl for Srrvler nt Pnlli. No gentleman will raise a rumpus In a polling place on election day, for by that-token he will not be a gentleman. Women watchers are promised. The National Itooscvclt League has under taken to enlist women for volunteer duty as watchers lrt all five boroughs. Word has been sent also to officers of tho league up the State asking them to enroll women for this duty. The pur pose Is to have quiet voting. The Progressives point to the nurse on the Bcllcvuc ambulance which takes Insane patients to thu hospital, saying, "She keeps 'em quiet, so why not nt tho polls?" PIGEON CROSSES CONTINENT T Carrier From I'lilliidelpliln Found nt tlolden (fate. San Francisco, Oct. 2fi. A valuable carrier pigeon was found on the United States Army transport dock at the foot I of Lagunn street to-day. It bore the tag of "H. A. M. COt'J (Phil.) K. K. Monde." Whether It Hew from the East or es- ornoTrieer0" """ cote could not bo learned. GEN. SICKLES CHARGES 'FRAUD. Hn llr liultimrd .Vote for M.I, 300 on Falae Nlnteiuciit, Allegations of fraud aro made by Gen. Daniel K. Sickles In an unswur filed In the Supreme Court yesterday I to a suit for $3,500 brought by Ausust lleckscher on u note Indorsed by Gen, Sickles. The defendant denies that he Is llablu on the note, and says that one Paul D. Dumunl came to the defendant, "then a man over 90 years of age," at his house und Induced him to lu dorso tho noto by making the false statement that It wus an ordinary promissory note which was Mccured by collateral and upon which Dumont, tho maker of tho note, would alone be held liable. Gen. Sickles sayo he has stneo learned that tin note Is one In which he waives n demand thut It bo paid by thu maker, but assumes full responsi bility for It. Gen. Slc'.tles Bays ho wouldn't have Indorsed such a note but for the alleged fraud by Dumont WOULDN'T WAIT FOR KING. American Portrait Palntrr llllcil Ilrenuxe tiuataf V, Went llnntlnv. 1. Campbell Phillips, a portrait painter, .teUirned.frpm. Sweden, via England, on the Whlto Star liner Ccdric yesterday. He wub rather hot becauso he said a , friend In Stockholm wrote to him to i come over to Sweden to pulnt u por trait of King Oustaf. The friend said It had all been arranged. When Mr. Phillips got lo Stockholm ho waited a week for tho King, who was nway on a hunting trip. At the end of tha week Phillips wouldn't wait liny longer to paint a king's portrait and cuine homo. Tim three clrls and four boys of Jus- tlnn fnrtlitmi U'hn hnvn liii n MieniThio- J he summer In Irelund, also return id , ne B 1 on th .i, the Ccdrlc and kept everybody on ump. Justice Cnhalan met them. man I'ver uumrc "" V " " rwirt. Ibe farollnnv Hani a. ninuinchin Biiocrlor fmlee via M-twrn Air l.lnc' clr- triollnIiict ail tra u. inq. iui U'uay. I'hone I ioii Mau.-.Ur. GUARD WHITMAN AND JUSTICE GOFF Friends of Judge, Jury and Lawyers Alarmed for Them. McINTYRE IS ARMED No Fear Shown, but Venom ous Threats Are Ad mitted by All. INFORMERS ARB QUAKING Gunmen Get Suspicious of Lefty Louirj Becker Cries He Was Railroaded. An extraordinary situation in a civil Ized community has developed since Lieut. Becker was found guilty at mur der In the first degree. The Judge of tha court, the lawyers for both sides, tha Jurors and the witnesses cannot walk tho streets with the same feeling of safety that they had before the trial. Justice John W. Goff was threatened by letter and over his private phone be-' fere tho Jury returned the verdict. When he leaves his home In West 104th street his assistant secretary, Thomas Kearney, or ' an armed guard accom panlcshlm. District Attorney Charles S. Whitman Is compelled by the Insistence ot his staff to permit Detective Albert Thomas to keep near him when he Is not In his private office or In his home at 37 Madi son avenue. He has received threats that he wilt not live to prosecute an other case. John F. Mclntyre, chlct counsel for Becker, makes no secret of his belief that his life is In danger, Llr. Mclntyre carries a revolver and Is ready to use It at any moment. Toward tho close of the trial and whle he was standing Just outside of the court room a gangmuu. muttered in his ear that his comments ubout Jack Rose's wife would cost hln his life. Rose, Webber, Vallon and Schepps, the Informers, have received messages in the West Side court prison that If they havo any property to dispose ot they might as well make their wills, These threats are supposed to emanate from, the friends of thc gunmen. Gyp the Blood, Xef ty Louie, Dago Frank and Whitcy Lewis. The Informers are chilled with fear. Shapiro Live In Fear. Shapiro, the chauffeur, who turned against the gunmen and who announced yeaterday that he Is ready to Identify them as the murderers of Rosenthal, had told his lawyer, Aaron J. Levy, that he fears he will be shot or stabbed as soon as he Is let out of tjie West Side court prison. Shapiro has been threatened with death as a "squealer." Sir. Lovy thinks that he Is no longer safe because he permitted his client. Shapiro, to take the witness stanJ against Becker, and because he has ad vised Shapiro to testify against the gun men when they come to trial. Mr. Le. y receives venomous threats dally. Friends of the Jurors who convicted Becker have been getting anonymous letters nnd telephone culls, some of which have been alarming. Justice Goff, the District Attorney, Mr. Mclntyre and others who dlsllko i sensationalism have sought to minimize the facts that Indicate that men who hire out for assassination and assaults soek an opportunity to cap the Rosenthal case with a crime more atrocious evert than the killing of Rnsenthul; hut de- i j, .... ,... ,,., ..,.. j , ' Y'frlm.fB (lirontu lmvn t,(trm rtnrt i'.r1 nn,l that common sense precautions are be ing taken. So far as Justice Goff Is concerned, i lm; ftuN Knows mai on one uay o; ine trial the Justice had reason to believ that his life and the lives ot counsel were endangered because of tho pres ence In the court room of ut least twenty llcved the situation was so perilous that It might be necessary to order Sheriff llurburncr to fill tho court room with armed deputies. His orders to the po lice nnd the court officers were sevore and resulted In Increased vigilance. Justlcu Golf's courage was such that he was willing to walk unaccompanied from court to meals or home, but his friends would not permit it because they knew what threats had gone to him. Mr. Whitman made light of perhaps 100 letters that wero written to him during and after the trial. He did not want to mako these letters public or to suggest that In New York city a prose cutor might lose his life because he waa doing his duty; but the members of the detective staff attached to the District Attorney's office Albert Thomas, I3clward Itaynes, Barney Flood and Frank Russo realized then and now the gravity of the situation and have not let their chief get out ot their sight. Mr. Mclntyre usually has with him Jackson Becker, a brother ot his client. Mr. Lovy goes armed. The utmost pre cautions aro taken to safeguard 'the Ulves of ItoBO, Webber, Vallon and Schepps, at well as tho lives of Shapiro, Thomas Coupe and other witnesses. A man who Is familiar with all of theso facts and who has estimated the bitterness developed by tho trial of Decker guve it as his opinion yesterday that nobody need be surprised .at an at tempt to assassinate some one of the chief figures In tho case. L'nae Is niamer Than flecker. "They sny that the gangs have bc?n terrorized bv tho conviction Of Beck 1'." tald Tin; Sun's Informant, "and thak wnco Zellg Is under me grounn ami in i gunmen in jail tnero is less imnei , minder of llosnntliul. I don t ugiee ui lnal theory at ull. Tho P.osenthul U1 " lwu-r whitman lx lis bigger than Becker, wniimin is 1 7' (